All her old ways had seemed to return to her, and she made her little saucy speeches to Mr Crosbie as she had used to do when he was first becoming fascinated by her sweetness.

"You know that you'll be such a swell when you get to that countess's house that you'll forget all about Allington." "Of course I shall," said he.
"And the paper you write upon will be all over coronets,--that is, if ever you do write.

Perhaps you will to Bernard some day, just to show that you are staying at a castle." "You certainly don't deserve that he should write to you," sad Mrs Dale.
"I don't expect it for a moment,--not till he gets back to London and finds that he has nothing else to do at his office.

But I should so like to see how you and Lady Julia get on together.

It was quite clear that she regarded you as an ogre; didn't she, Bell ?" "So many people are ogres to Lady Julia," said Bell.
"I believe Lady Julia to be a very good woman," said Mrs Dale, "and I won't have her abused." "Particularly before poor Bernard, who is her pet nephew," said Lily.
"I dare say Adolphus will become a pet too when she has been a week with him at Courcy Castle.